Do you want to add a video clip to your PowerPoint slide so that it continues to play across subsequent slides? This actually means that when you
move from one slide to another, the video continues playing without any interruption. In PowerPoint 2007, the Play Across Slides
option was available within interface. But in PowerPoint 2010 and later versions, this option is no longer available. However, tthere is a
workaround to make a video play across slides, as explained in this tutorial.

Remember: As far as possible, work with a presentation that has been saved at least once.

Follow these steps to play your video clip across slides in PowerPoint 2010:

Navigate to the slide where you want the video to begin playing.
Insert the video clip within this slide.

Select or double-click the video clip to bring up the two contextual Video Tools tabs in the
Ribbon. These two tabs are Format and
Playback -- click the Playback tab to activate it, as shown in Figure 1 (highlighted in
red).

Figure 1: Video Tools Playback tab of the Ribbon

Within the Video Options group, locate the Start drop-down list, and select the Automatically
option, shown highlighted in red within Figure 2, below. Optionally, select the Loop until
Stopped (highlighted in blue within Figure 2) check-box if you want your video to start playing
all over again after it completes.

Figure 2: Automatically option and Loop until Stopped check-box to be selected

Now, access the Animations tab of the Ribbon. Locate the Advanced Animation group, and click
the Animation Pane button, highlighted in red within Figure 3.

Figure 3: Animation Pane button within Advanced Animation group

This bring up the AnimationPane task pane, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Animation listed for video clip within Animation Pane

Note: The Animations task pane works as a toggle option as far its visibility is concerned. The first time you click
the Animation Pane button (highlighted in red within Figure 3, above), it becomes
visible. If you click the same button again, this causes the task pane to be hidden.

Within the Animation task pane, you may see more than one animation associated with your video clip. You need to use the option
that has a Play action associated with it (highlighted in red within Figure 4, above)
-- double click this animation.

This brings up the multi-tabbed Play Video dialog box, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Do you want the video to span 999 slides?

Within the Effect tab, select the After radio button, and type in a value in the box here:

If you know how many slides you want your video clip to span, enter the number of slides as the value -- this can be a regular number such as 5,
8, 16, etc.

If you want the video clip to play until the end of the presentation, enter 999 as the value, as shown highlighted in red within
Figure 5. We typed in 999 because this is the largest number that PowerPoint can accept for spanning video clips across slides.

Click the OK button to apply changes, and get back to your slide. Preview your presentation and the video playing across slides.

Have you ever used keyboard shortcuts and sequences in PowerPoint? Or are you a complete keyboard aficionado?
Do you want to learn about some new shortcuts? Or do you want to know if your favorite keyboard shortcuts are documented?